[news] Sneering at Redemption: Why Arnold Killed Tookie

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

Tonight children are being born to mothers without health insurance, in neighborhoods politicians don't enter without SWAT teams, news cameras, and latex gloves. The political class has already branded these kids as human waste. But many of them could have found another path, because Stanley Tookie Williams would have been there to intervene in their lives and show another way....Now it's up to those of us who stood with Tookie to keep on pushing. This is (Arnold) Schwarzenegger's "mission accomplished" moment for his right wing, pro-death (penalty) base. But his "mission" will fail. He is part of a 21st century set of rulers who have repeatedly shown, whether in Baghdad or New Orleans, that they are unfit to rule. Their brutality will be met with resistance in the tradition of Nelson Mandela, Angela Davis, Malcolm X, Leonard Peltier, George Jackson... and Stanley Tookie Williams.

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